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{{quote|"Of what import are brief, nameless lives... to '''[[Planet Eater|Galactus]]'''??"|[[Stan Lee]] and [[Jack Kirby]], ''[[Fantastic Four]]'', (Vol. I, No. 49, April 1966)}}▼
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| author = Junot Díaz
| central theme = The repeating of tragedy via generational trauma
| elevator pitch = The tragedy and decadence of three generations of a hispanic family (A good-natured doctor, his extremely beautiful younger daughter, and her children -a geeky boy and a more street-wise girl), as seen by the best friend of said family's younger male child.
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▲{{quote|"Of what import are brief, nameless lives... to '''[[Planet Eater|Galactus]]'''??"
|[[Stan Lee]] and [[Jack Kirby]], ''[[Fantastic Four (Comic Book)|Fantastic Four]]'', (Vol. I, No. 49, April 1966)}}
{{quote|They say it came first from Africa, carried in the screams of the enslaved; that it was the death bane of the Tainos, uttered just as one world perished and another began; that it was a demon drawn into Creation through the nightmare door that was cracked open in the Antilles. ''Fuká americanus'', or more colloquially, fuká-
''[[The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao]]'' is a 2007 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Junot Díaz. The story is centered around the character Oscar de León, a [[One of Us|consummate scifi and fantasy geek]] with horrendous luck with women who wants to be the Dominican [[J. R. R. Tolkien]]. The story is told through his former roommate at Rutgers, Yunior, who comes off as a [[Jerkass|bit dickish]] when he is first introduced into the story, but [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|grows into a better person]] by the time he is writing the novel. Yunior tells the story of Oscar's life (and [[Oh, and X Dies|death]]) by tracing Oscar's story through his sister Lola, his mother Hypatá Belicia Cabral (or Beli for short), and his grandfather Abelard Cabral's own tragic tales.
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* [[A Man Is Not a Virgin]]
* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]
* [[Cultural Rebel]]
* [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]
* [[Big Bad]]
* [[Big Breasts, Big Deal]]: Beli becomes ''extremely'' well-endowed when she [[She's All Grown Up|hits puberty]]. She's initially ashamed about her breasts, but soon begins flaunting them when she realizes that they make men fall all over her. Her daughter Lola, on the other hand, is [[Pettanko|as flat as a board]] but became just as well-endowed [[Baby Got Back|in a different area]].
* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: José Then and the rest of Belicia's old coworkers, who put themselves in danger of great harm by saving her life from some secret police thugs. José even pulls a pistol and jams it against one of their heads.
* [[Bittersweet Ending]]
* [[Black and Nerdy]]
* [[Curse]]
* [[Dirty Cop]]
* [[Driven to Suicide]]
* [[Evil Overlord]]
* [[Footnote Fever]]
* [[Funny Afro]]
* [[Geek Physiques]]
* [[Geek Reference Pool]]
** [[Akira]]
** [[The Dark Knight Returns]]
** [[Dungeons and Dragons]]
** [[Fantastic Four (Comic Book)|Fantastic Four]]
** [[New Gods]]
** [[Watchmen]]
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** [[The Sandman]]
** [[John Kricfalusi]] (misspelled "Krikfalusi")
* [[Lonely Funeral]]
* [[Loners Are Freaks]]
* [[Love Makes You Crazy]]: Oscar, so very much. We see in a flashback that he inherited this trait from his mother Beli, who nearly got killed because of it. {{spoiler|Oscar is even less lucky.}}
* [[Named Like My Name]]: Óscar de León, the main character, has the name of a famous [[wikipedia:Oscar Dchr(27)Le%C3%B3n|salsa singer]]. This is, though, never mentioned in the book.
* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]
* [[Narrator All Along]]
* [[Nerds Are Virgins]]
* [[Pyrrhic Victory]]
* [[Sensei for Scoundrels]]
* [[Sensitive Guy and Manly Man]]
* [[She's All Grown Up]]: Jacquelyn and Beli blossom almost overnight from skinny girls into stunningly beautiful and well-endowed teenagers, although it doesn't do them much good in the long run. ''Especially'' for Jacquelyn and her poor doomed family in the Age of [[Kavorka Man|Trujillo]].
* [[Shout-Out]]
* [[The Blank]]
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]
* [[You Can't Go Home Again]]
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